"Are you from the same part of England as Dick Van Dyke?".....terrific! And for those who don't get it Dick Van Dyke has been mercilessly slammed for years for his horrible English accent in 'Mary Poppins'.
@JohnyG29 I literally said when I was younger, like a kid, he was fine, it was a played up cockney accent, I've heard way worse, Karl Urban in The Boys may be the worst English accent ever.
@Quasimodo1957 are you English? Have you heard an English accent? At least Dick Van Dykes English accent was discernable and you could tell what part of England he was supposed to be from, Karl Urban sounds like a muted Australian 😐
inability of youtube's 2024 automated captions to decipher a lot of Scottish lines but getting the lift's lines 100% correct only makes the whole skit better. happy new 2025 year to you all folks, greetings from Ukraine! humour is an indispensable asset of humanity, especially in chaotic, dire, dark times. i salute to everyone who at least tried to make the people around them smile, i believe those who succeeded in doing so are our true heroes!
So you tried the english subtitles, too, huh? 😂 The irony, that even the YT subtitles generator did not understand the scottish accent, escaped me completely at first! (A very good point!) I also 100% agree with your oppinion about the importance of humor in dire times! It really helps. Some 20+ years ago, I severely broke my lower leg, and it had to be fixed by an emergency surgery during the night. When I arrived in my hospital room around the following midday, I chatted a bit with my two room mates. Naturally, we talked about what brought us there, who we are, etc. During this conversation, I very often fell asleep mid sentence, because I was still full of anaesthetics and also lacked sleep. I asked for apologies for doing so. In Germany, we say: "It's no broken leg!", if someone apologizes for a minor thing that can easily be forgiven. And that's exactly what one of my room mates said. Followed by: "Oops! I'm sorry. Indeed it is!". 😂 After all this time, I still have to smile thinking about this. Edit I almost forgot to say: Hang in there! I hope Putin will not win this horrible war, and that Ukraine will be able to stand their ground! And I wish peace will come for all of you, very soon! 💙💛
I watched a dubbed anime a couple months ago and couldn't get the auto-generated subtitles to go away for some reason, and it's attempts at extracting English words from the untranslated themesong was hilarious, though the only bit I remember was: "Eisenhower whaling chair"
Same all over the UK. I've an RP ("received pronounciation") accent. My phone hates me. I think it hates my voice and thinks I'm a posh twat. But I am what I am and wouldn't judge anyone else for being who they are. I speak into my phone (can't type due to disability), "I shall be home within the hour", and it types, "I shall be in a boat now". 🙄 The local bookshop's lift has a Spanish accent. It says "dors clothing" 👍😊
My dad and brother always have trouble with the voice recognition thing. And we're from Michigan. I told my brother one day to try a "Californian Valley Girl" accent and it worked perfectly. I think its because most of the voice recognition technology is made in California so of course the only accent it would recognize is "Californian Valley Girl".
At one booth at the Expo 2000 there was some voice controlled robot done by Mercedes (if I remember right). I’d didn’t understand standard German, but worked perfectly fine with Swabian accent.
LOL LOL I'm from the UK but lived in southern California for 45 years and had that problem for the ENTIRE time. I sew a U Tube with a European flight attendant would just sing la la la and would automatically go to an operator!!!! Now I'm in the UK I have the same problem because I have a very slight American accent-just goes to show that you cant win!!!
One day a truckdriver from Scotland arrived at our shipping department, in his hand a piece of paper with our address written on, asking me some questions. I needed five minutes to realize that he was speaking English!
I consider myself accentless, I know that's funny. Voice recognition cannot distinguish between when I am saying and or an, it ALWAYS gets it backwards. It always hears 'are' instead of 'our'. And "while" is out of the question.
I know this skit is funny but how else do you pronounce eleven? I’m from New Jersey (east coast), USA and that’s how we pronounce eleven. Scots, don’t let any english tell you they can’t understand you!
A mum told her toddler he had 2 more minutes to play in the kiddies cube at mall and an alarm clock popped up on my phone screen and went off precisely
Me, every Day with me smarthome. I think i'm married to my echo, everyday smartassing and shouting. They understand perfectly well, they're just twats!
I'm Australian. This why I do not use "Hey Google" (Android version of Siri) on my phone. This is how I feel every time using "Hey Google" on my own phone!!! In fact this what I go through everytime I use "Hey Google" on my phone!!!!
Open up the Google app; • tap your profile icon in the upper right corner; • in the menu, tap Settings (scroll down for it, if you don't see it); • tap Google Assistant; • tap Languages; • tap on "English (United States)" to change it to "English (Australian)" (scroll up in the list); or add a new language.
Its esp funny because they say eleven perfectly clear. Its barely any different than Americans say it. Now some of the rest of what they say, yeah no AI is understanding that.🤣
Vowels are just suggestions across the world. A place to insert whatever sound you want, and call it English. If you didn’t use them, you’d sound crazy, but you’d sound more similar. The problem is they modify the consonants, so you have to keep them in the spelling in order to tell which version of the consonant you want. Which seems like nonsense, but is highly expressive ordinarily. Th/t w/ld l/k l/k/ th/s /r s/mth/ng s/m/l/r t/ /t. But you’d have to learn all the funny letters pronunciation.
@@mardus_ee And assuming the lift assistant understood how to operate the lift in the first place. It may have been programmed to operate a coffee pot for all we know.
Burnistoun is funny as fuck, saw this years ago and then years after on TH-cam so to see this reuploaded after talking about it last week is hilarious, though I feel bad for anyone outside of the UK trying to understand it.
_"Are you from the same part of England as Dick Van Dyke?"_ LOL!
I did a search on Dick Van Dyke. The man is alive at 99 years old currently.
@@Ultradude604And American. He was dancing in a Cold Okay video recently.
@@Ultradude604His wife is also 46 years younger.
Sorry that's Cold Play. It auto-corrected.
@@Ultradude604He goes to the gym regularly.
Aaah, a classic that never gets old. 😂 "FREEEEEDOM!!!!"
Just give up, say TEN and walk the last floor.
Ten will be Tin 😂😂😂
@@shyguy1051 I was going to say what he said... but now you're right, that would be pointless.
@@shyguy1051 but at least that would be only two spellings to try
Ten, please. Eleven, please - might work as well...
oh
A classic sketch. Funny af.
😂 I laughed til I cried😂
"Are you from the same part of England as Dick Van Dyke?".....terrific!
And for those who don't get it Dick Van Dyke has been mercilessly slammed for years for his horrible English accent in 'Mary Poppins'.
It was never that bad, as a young kid I thought he was English as I'm sure others did too.
@@Pranksta1985 I think you need an urgent hearing test if you really think that. 😂 Dick had the worst accent.
@JohnyG29 I literally said when I was younger, like a kid, he was fine, it was a played up cockney accent, I've heard way worse, Karl Urban in The Boys may be the worst English accent ever.
@@Pranksta1985 Honestly I think it's okay. It's still better than Dick Van Dyke.
@Quasimodo1957 are you English? Have you heard an English accent? At least Dick Van Dykes English accent was discernable and you could tell what part of England he was supposed to be from, Karl Urban sounds like a muted Australian 😐
inability of youtube's 2024 automated captions to decipher a lot of Scottish lines but getting the lift's lines 100% correct only makes the whole skit better.
happy new 2025 year to you all folks, greetings from Ukraine!
humour is an indispensable asset of humanity, especially in chaotic, dire, dark times. i salute to everyone who at least tried to make the people around them smile, i believe those who succeeded in doing so are our true heroes!
greetings back to Ukraine! :))
Slava Ukraini! 💙💛
So you tried the english subtitles, too, huh? 😂
The irony, that even the YT subtitles generator did not understand the scottish accent, escaped me completely at first!
(A very good point!)
I also 100% agree with your oppinion about the importance of humor in dire times! It really helps.
Some 20+ years ago, I severely broke my lower leg, and it had to be fixed by an emergency surgery during the night. When I arrived in my hospital room around the following midday, I chatted a bit with my two room mates. Naturally, we talked about what brought us there, who we are, etc. During this conversation, I very often fell asleep mid sentence, because I was still full of anaesthetics and also lacked sleep. I asked for apologies for doing so.
In Germany, we say: "It's no broken leg!", if someone apologizes for a minor thing that can easily be forgiven.
And that's exactly what one of my room mates said. Followed by: "Oops! I'm sorry. Indeed it is!". 😂
After all this time, I still have to smile thinking about this.
Edit
I almost forgot to say: Hang in there! I hope Putin will not win this horrible war, and that Ukraine will be able to stand their ground! And I wish peace will come for all of you, very soon! 💙💛
There is an old "showbiz" line .. . . . .. "Always leave them laughing". . .! ! ! ! !!! ! !
I watched a dubbed anime a couple months ago and couldn't get the auto-generated subtitles to go away for some reason, and it's attempts at extracting English words from the untranslated themesong was hilarious, though the only bit I remember was: "Eisenhower whaling chair"
Thanks for pointing this out. The skit was hilarious already, but with the auto caption on it's hilarious squared🤣🤣🤣🤣
Now I understand why my Scottish Siri sounds like a 5th generation American Scot. 😂
As a Yorkshire woman I confirm that they don't understand yet the Yorkshire accent either.
Same all over the UK. I've an RP ("received pronounciation") accent. My phone hates me. I think it hates my voice and thinks I'm a posh twat. But I am what I am and wouldn't judge anyone else for being who they are. I speak into my phone (can't type due to disability), "I shall be home within the hour", and it types, "I shall be in a boat now". 🙄 The local bookshop's lift has a Spanish accent. It says "dors clothing" 👍😊
You really can't blame them
@@sulalee7413Your bookshop's elevator is Basque?!?¿ You should see if it dispenses Paella 😂
It may just be that you need to lay off the Yoda juice.
@@sulalee7413let‘s hope the phone doesn’t think that and just isn’t very good at voice recognition
These fellas aren’t comedians, they’re Patriots! 🤜🏼🤛🏽
"Burnistoun" is the name of the show, go look em up, awesome show... probably should be credited tbf
Definitely.
Thank you! I could only remember it began with a B!!!
@Palindrome78 you're welcome.
It’s in the title now at least…?
How everyone felt when using the very first version of siri.
Dumb idea what if a person is drunk or mute?
@@brokeandtired sign language?
@@mweskamppp it cant read lips, why would it read hands?
Does anyone actually use any of this shite tech? I only know it from my parents struggling to turn it off.
I refuse to speak to a machine
My dad and brother always have trouble with the voice recognition thing. And we're from Michigan. I told my brother one day to try a "Californian Valley Girl" accent and it worked perfectly.
I think its because most of the voice recognition technology is made in California so of course the only accent it would recognize is "Californian Valley Girl".
How many "likes" do you need to insert into a sentence for it to work properly?
At one booth at the Expo 2000 there was some voice controlled robot done by Mercedes (if I remember right). I’d didn’t understand standard German, but worked perfectly fine with Swabian accent.
:-D I can believe that!
LOL LOL I'm from the UK but lived in southern California for 45 years and had that problem for the ENTIRE time.
I sew a U Tube with a European flight attendant would just sing la la la and would automatically go to an operator!!!!
Now I'm in the UK I have the same problem because I have a very slight American accent-just goes to show that you cant win!!!
The task: "Please remain calm."
The Scottish: Devolves into yelling 'SCOTLAND!' and 'FREEEEDOM!' at the problem.
Yep that checks out.
*Purple Burglar Alarm*
now thats cruel 🙂
In the southern US, it's "five bowls of boiling oil" 😁😁😁
😂 Shoud've tried "Ten plus one".
or just ten and take the stairs
Aye...tin plush whun
Ah... French accent then!
This is the funniest clip I have ever seen 😂😂😂 brilliant
Old but still gold.
My favourite timeless sketch ever 😂😂
Whenever I see or hear 11, I always remember this and say ALAVEN 😂😂
I just lost my PHUQING MIND at the ENDING!!!🥴🤣🤣
😂😂
From Northern Ireland. Living in Canada for 50 years. My car's voice recognition system still doesn't bloody understand me a lot of the time!
“Are you from the same part of England as Dick van Dyke?” That line solidified this as gold for me. What is this from?
i think this was their best sketch. when i use the phone i have to sometimes use a polite English accent. with automated systems.
Happy New Year from Spain. That Scot eleven sounds as "lift!", but in Spanish.
Sí, es "elevar" 😂
One of the toughest accents to understand. Hope to go there one day.
Same part of England as Dick Van Dyke is a diabolic burn almost fell out on that line
Very funny. Well done. Like a duet of sheer anger.
SCOTTLAAND FORREVVERRRRR !!!
and underneath your comment it reads 'translate to English'... how fitting!!! 😂
This is hilarious😂
Guys, you are fantastic!
Just shout "TEN" and go up to the 11th floor by the stairs. 😂
At least we can understand 'em. Just listened to a cockney fellow and for the life of me I couldn't figure out what he was saying.
One day a truckdriver from Scotland arrived at our shipping department, in his hand a piece of paper with our address written on, asking me some questions. I needed five minutes to realize that he was speaking English!
This is brilliant
The classic American comedic comeback😂
No no it's McLovin LOL thanks for the laugh❤
The eleva'thor: "Would you like to play a game?"
I was waiting for it to reveal a real person on the other end that was messing with them, lol
"Going up"? Yeah, nah, yeah, I don't see that coming! 🤣
This is great!!!
My experience with anything compuerized!
this is hilarious
if you want to leave the cabin please shout "freedom"
Guys, you leave all of us non-native speakers practically no hope. Yet I somehow manage with my Euro-English. 😅
Old but gold 🤣
THAT'S how you end a sketch.
This is ancient, but still funny.
A grand classic!
Thank gawd, I thought it was just me. I have to watch Shetland & Annika with captioning on.....
“Aluvin!”
I like that I get the option to 'Translate to English'
@@cabdude2even better have you clicked on the translate button? Completely wrong!
:-) Hilarious!!
This is sooooo old... yet always funny.
I gave up on my sat nav, but Alexa understands me😂
that is halarious!!!
Fark it! Just go to floor 10 and walk up the stairs to 11 😂
Это комедийный скетч
I'd be expectin' them ta choose 'thudteen'
Wonderful & so true :)
I consider myself accentless, I know that's funny. Voice recognition cannot distinguish between when I am saying and or an, it ALWAYS gets it backwards. It always hears 'are' instead of 'our'. And "while" is out of the question.
The funny thing is, the word eleven is the easiest to understand word from them in this skit.
Brilliant! 😂
"I live in"
An propur Kerrnish be ride owd, m'ansum
I know this skit is funny but how else do you pronounce eleven? I’m from New Jersey (east coast), USA and that’s how we pronounce eleven. Scots, don’t let any english tell you they can’t understand you!
A mum told her toddler he had 2 more minutes to play in the kiddies cube at mall and an alarm clock popped up on my phone screen and went off precisely
Shouldve told your phone to mind their own business 😂 maybe it would turn the alarm back off
So bloody true. My Canadian truck doesn’t like my English accent.
Go to twelve and walk down fellas 😂😂😂
I have an accent as well albeit not Scottish, and yes, I suffer similar fate.
hilarious
Me, every Day with me smarthome. I think i'm married to my echo, everyday smartassing and shouting. They understand perfectly well, they're just twats!
its a lift mate
It's a lift mate 😂
Reminds me of my bro trying google it just wont understand the accent!
Really funny
I'm Australian.
This why I do not use "Hey Google"
(Android version of Siri) on my phone.
This is how I feel every time using "Hey Google" on my own phone!!!
In fact this what I go through everytime I use
"Hey Google" on my phone!!!!
Open up the Google app;
• tap your profile icon in the upper right corner;
• in the menu, tap Settings (scroll down for it, if you don't see it);
• tap Google Assistant;
• tap Languages;
• tap on "English (United States)" to change it to "English (Australian)" (scroll up in the list); or add a new language.
Did he say “twalv” ?😉
Say "Ten" then take the stair
Better to say twelve and go a stairs down
@@sharikabollen1078 Bold of you to think it'd recognize "twelve".
Reminds me of an ant and dec sketch😂😂
Its esp funny because they say eleven perfectly clear. Its barely any different than Americans say it. Now some of the rest of what they say, yeah no AI is understanding that.🤣
Right funny that was.
Sweet jesus are we going back in time for this one.
😂 Could be Yi~~leven not Eh/Uh~~leven
everybody thinking their accents are unintelligible 😊
Vowels are just suggestions across the world. A place to insert whatever sound you want, and call it English.
If you didn’t use them, you’d sound crazy, but you’d sound more similar. The problem is they modify the consonants, so you have to keep them in the spelling in order to tell which version of the consonant you want. Which seems like nonsense, but is highly expressive ordinarily.
Th/t w/ld l/k l/k/ th/s /r s/mth/ng s/m/l/r t/ /t.
But you’d have to learn all the funny letters pronunciation.
Try 10 😂😂😂
Purple burglar alarm
The "American accent" sounded like a Russian accent
"I'm not beggin' that for nothin'!"
Go TEN and then walk.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Should have said 10 and just walked the last floor....
It's even easier to say "Twelve" and walk down to floor 11, as it would spare people from walking up from 10th floor to 11th floor.
@@mardus_ee Good point, assuming there was a 12th floor I suppose.
@@ShelitaCrosby Assuming the electronic lift assistant would have been able to understand "twelve"..
@@mardus_ee And assuming the lift assistant understood how to operate the lift in the first place. It may have been programmed to operate a coffee pot for all we know.
🤣😂🤣
Elephant 😂
Burnistoun is funny as fuck, saw this years ago and then years after on TH-cam so to see this reuploaded after talking about it last week is hilarious, though I feel bad for anyone outside of the UK trying to understand it.
Ahleven.
Scotish v/s Alexia.
And here I'm just fuming because they keep saying Alaven instead of eeeleven. Like listening to people pronounce envelope differently.
Ha ha
Cries in Jamaican.
😂😂😂😂😂